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    Fullscreen

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Syd, Oct 16, 2007.

  1. Syd

    Syd Newbie

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    Hello,

    I have a problem with a fullscreen. After installing new drivers(163_75 VISTA) i cant get a fullsreen on bioshock. For example, playing UT3 i can set it up at widesreen resolution and everything goes well, but playing bioshock even setting a widesreen resolution it doesnt help and get only worse. When i try to change it one more time the game crash'es. BTW, before installing new drivers i had only three available resolutions on my display settings, and now i have much much much more, and before installing new drivers i was able to play COD4,UT3 at any resolution and i had no problems with fullsreen, but now i have(i have to set it up on widesreen resolution). Can anyone help?
    Sorry for bad english, because its not my native language.
     
    Syd, Oct 16, 2007
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  2. nic.

    nic. Notebook Evangelist

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    Sorry but i can hardly understand you.

    Anyway, try this.

    Right click at empty space when you're at your desktop, select NVIDIA Control Panel, under "display", click "Change flat panel scaling". Look at no.2 and select "Use NVIDIA scaling".

    If i get you correctly, this should work.
     
    nic., Oct 17, 2007
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  3. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    When people say full screen they genrerally mean the difference between the program being on the top of all others and having priority, and the opposite is windowed, where its just in a window and can be moved around or fall behind another window.

    I think you have full screen on bioshock, but mean that you cant run it in widescreen. If thats the case nic is on the right track. Older drivers have "stretch to fit" enabled by default somtimes, so if you run a standard screen program (4:3) it will strech it out to make it fit the screen. The new drivers tho have aspect scaling enabled by default so it will put black bars on the sides to make it fit correctly.

    Is this what your talking about? If so its called letter boxing. It should fix itself if you just run a widescreen resolution, make sure you use the right one as there are 16:10 and 16:9 resolutions.

    Head over to widescreengamingforum.com for any kind of help with getting games in widescreen. Even games that dont support it often have hacks.

    As for crashes I can only think your using a resolution that your computer doesnt support, or maybe you need a clean install of your drivers, because you didnt uninstall the old ones correctly and install the new ones.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Oct 17, 2007
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